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POISSON, Traité de Mécanique, 1833
POISSON, Siméon Denis.
Traité de Mécanique.
Paris, Bachelier, 1833.
Two volumes 8vo (205x129 mm), (4)-xxx-(2)-696-8 pages and 4 folding plates / (4)-xxxv-(1)-782 pages and 3 folding plates. binding : Contemporary quarter calf, flat spines. Title page and half title of part 1 restored. Slightly rubbed bindings. Small accident on the lower caps of volume I.
Second edition.
Siméon Denis Poisson (1781-1840), French physicist and mathematician, it is in this Treatise on Mechanics that he introduces the coefficient which bears his name and which is one of the fundamental elements of the theory of elasticity. He demonstrated using molecular theory that this coefficient should have a value equal to 0.25. Value confirmed by measurements since most metals have a Poisson's ratio close to 0.3.
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